§ POWER TO DIRECT INQUIRIES
§ Mr. Graham PageI beg to move Amendment 824, in page 168, line 35, leave out from 'to' or 'unless' in line 36 and insert:
'attend to give evidence or to produce any such documents'.Here we are being much more generous. I am sorry the hon. Member for Widnes (Mr. Oakes) is not here. I would have had great pleasure in saying this to him because he raised the matter in Committee. The position is that if persons are summoned by a local authority to 1066 attend an inquiry, they do not receive expenses unless they have to travel 10 miles. The hon. Member for Widnes tabled an Amendment in Committee to provide for expenses if they had to travel three miles. I said "Why not if they have to travel any distance at all?" That is why I put down this Amendment.
§ Amendment agreed to.